| Croaked: Frog Monster from Hell | Bill Rebane | monster film, horror film | United States |
| Endangered Species | Alan Rudolph | mystery film, thriller film, science fiction film | United States |
| From the Ashes: Nicaragua Today | Helena Solberg | documentary film | United States |
| National Lampoon's Movie Madness | Henry Jaglom, Bob Giraldi | parody film | United States |
| Eight Minutes to Midnight: A Portrait of Dr. Helen Caldicott | Mary Benjamin | documentary film | United States |
| Honky Tonk Freeway | John Schlesinger | comedy film | United Kingdom |
| Night School | Ken Hughes | horror film, thriller film, slasher film | United States |
| Nothing to Hide | Anthony Spinelli | romance film, drama film, comedy film, pornographic film | United States |
| Play Dead | Peter Wittman | horror film | United States |
| Raggedy Man | Jack Fisk | drama film | United States |
| Challenger: An Industrial Romance | Michael Rubbo | documentary film | Canada |
| Just Tell Me What You Want | Sidney Lumet | romantic comedy | United States |
| Oh! Heavenly Dog | Joe Camp | fantasy film, comedy film | United States |
| Ripe Strawberries | — | comedy film, short film | United States |
| Tanya's Island | Alfred Sole | drama film, fantasy film | Canada, United States |
| The Department | Brian Bell | — | Australia |
| The Godsend | Gabrielle Beaumont | horror film | United Kingdom |
| The Space Movie | Tony Palmer | documentary film | United States |
| Times Square | Allan Moyle | lesbian-related film, teen film, queer film, drama film, LGBTQ-related film, musical film | United States |
| C.H.O.M.P.S. | Don Chaffey | children's film, science fiction film | United States |
| Coriolanus | Wilford Leach | drama film | United States |
| Hanging by a Thread | Georg Fenady | disaster film | United States |
| Porridge | Dick Clement | comedy film | United Kingdom, Australia |
| Savage Weekend | David Paulsen | horror film, LGBTQ-related film, slasher film | United States |
| The Capture of Bigfoot | Bill Rebane | horror film | United States |
| American Hot Wax | Floyd Mutrux | biographical film | United States |
| Coma | Michael Crichton | horror film, science fiction film, crime film | United States |
| Convoy | James Coburn, Sam Peckinpah | drama film, comedy film, action film, adventure film, comedy drama | United States |
| Corvette Summer | Matthew Robbins | teen film, comedy film | United States |
| Every Which Way but Loose | James Fargo | comedy film, action film, boxing film | United States |
| Hooper | Hal Needham | action film, action comedy film | United States |
| Nicole | István Ventilla | erotic thriller | United States |
| Rock 'n' Roll High School | Allan Arkush | teen film, musical comedy, comedy film, musical film | United States |
| Are You Being Served? | Bob Kellett | comedy film | United Kingdom |
| Fire! | Earl Bellamy | action film, disaster film | United States |
| The Deep | Peter Yates | mystery film, action film, horror film, treasure hunt film, thriller film, adventure film | United States |
| The Pack | Robert Clouse | horror film | United States |
| The Uncanny | Denis Héroux | mystery film, horror film | United Kingdom |
| All the President's Men | Alan J. Pakula | political thriller film, drama film, historical film, crime film | United States |
| Blue Belle | Massimo Dallamano | coming-of-age film, drama film, erotic film | United Kingdom, Italy, Australia |
| East End Hustle | Frank Vitale | drama film | Canada |
| Eliza Fraser | Tim Burstall | — | Australia |
| Escape from the Dark | Charles Jarrott | drama film, children's film | United Kingdom, United States |
| Feelin' Up | David Secter | independent film | United States |
| Futureworld | Richard T. Heffron | action film, thriller film, science fiction film | United States |
| In the Region of Ice | Peter Werner | drama film | United States |
| James Dean: The First American Teenager | Ray Connolly | documentary film | United States |
| King Kong | John Guillermin | drama film, monster film, fantasy film, action film, horror film, speculative fiction film, adventure film, science fiction film | United States |